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New Orleans school transportation safety to be examined at public meeting Wednesday (Feb. 12)

CCC school bus accident

The safety of New Orleans school transportation will be discussed at a public committee meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 12. This school bus was involved in a hit-and-run accident on the Crescent City Connection last October. (Michael DeMocker, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune)

The safety of New Orleans school transportation will be the focus of a special committee meeting called for Wednesday afternoon (Feb. 12) in the first-floor council chambers at City Hall.

District B City Council member LaToya Cantrell will chair the meeting, described by her chief of staff Marilyn Wood as "a forum for parents, school advocates, educators and other members of the public to share their concerns about the current state of school transportation." The meeting is scheduled for 4:15 p.m. at 1300 Perdido St.

The meeting comes in the wake of last Monday's hit-and-run death of 6-year-old Shaud Wilson in Gentilly. The Akili Academy first-grader was fatally injured as he and three siblings tried crossing four lanes of traffic on Paris Avenue to reach their bus stop. The boy's funeral was held Saturday.

Cantrell, who chairs the city council's committee on Health, Education and Social Services, is also the founder and board president of Wilson Charter School. The meeting will invite limited public comment, with time allotted for response from representatives of the Orleans Parish School Board, the Recovery School District, and the state's Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.